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Sunday, 11 August 2013

Czech Railway Station Becomes Holocaust Memorial

FSWC Reports:

From AFP via ynetnews.com:

A Prague railway station
that saw tens of thousands of Czech Jews leave for ghettos and Nazi
death camps between 1941 and 1945 is to become a memorial for those who
died.

Czech Jews and Holocaust survivors have for years been calling for a
memorial for the Prague-Bubny station, which last year welcomed a
theater troupe that roamed the Czech Republic and Poland on board a
train to perform a play about the Holocaust.READ MORE...